Assignment task:
Describe how the passage, "Should he make an effort to behave like a Christian through his door open, offer me a cup of tea or should he just play it cool, study his fingernails in a manner that showed broad indifference and get rid of me as quickly as possible. in the end, he did neither" illustrates the main characteristics of a Scottish accent. Does each feature occur in every context it might be expected, based on the following list of features? Are there unexpected pronunciations of some of the sounds? Please provide all relevant examples to support your answer. Here is the list of features:
Rhotic accent, with r often realized as tap [?] or trill [r]
which-witch distinction maintained
velarized /l/ is common in all positions
Merging and fronting of GOOSE and FOOT vowels pronounced [?]
FACE and GOAT vowels pronounced as monophthongs [e], [o]
BATH and TRAP vowels merged as [a]
final vowel in happY pronounced as [e]
otherwise, vowels are similar to Standard British accent